The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
We can only know others by ourselves.
Everyone lives by selling something.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
No man is useless while he has a friend.